Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wing Chun & Hung Gar Kung Fu Classes Now Offered at UMACA
UMACA is pleased to announce the introduction of Kung Fu to it's class lineup. Kung Fu classes will take place Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. in the little gym. Both Wing Chun and Hung Gar Kung Fu styles will be taught.

Wing Chun Kung Fu
Wing Chun literally means Eternal Spring and is a Chinese martial art that uses strking and grappling with a specialization in close-range combat. The most famous practicioner of this art in the West is Bruce Lee. The commonly accepted history of the art is that Ng Mui, a Buddist nun, escaped from an attack on her Shaolin Monastery and fled into nearby mountains. There she wittnessed a fight between a crane and a snake and carefully observed how they fought. As she already was a master of Shaolin Kung Fu, she applied her observations to her art. She taught this new style to a yong woman named Yim Wing Chun, who wsa being forced into an unwanted marriage. Wing Chun used this new Kung Fu style to fight off the unwanted fiance and get out of the marriage. She taught other this new martial art and, hence, it bears her name.

Hung Gar Kung Fu
Hung Gar Kung Fu is a fluid self defense system that includes techniques meant to mimic the dragon, the snake, the tiger, the leopard and the crane. It is a traditional Chinese style and one of the most practiced of the Shaolin Kung Fu styles. It derived from the "fighting monks" of the Shaolin Temple in the Chinese Henan province and was practiced along with Ch'an Buddism to both imprive the physical fitness of the monks for longer meditation sessions as well afford a level of protection to the temple.

Students must be 18 yrs old and over to be able to participate in Wing Chung and Hung Gar Kung Fu.